JohnRossitter
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Looks great! If you don't make it as a builder, you may g=have a future in photography
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Hi Everyone, I have been talking with a friend of mine who owns an ISP here in my home town and he has agreed to let me have about a gig of storage space for a video blog site. I was wanting to put together a collection of video blogs for project guitar stuff. I will be making my own videos as well as hosting any videos you would like to as well. Please let me know if you are interested. Thanks, John Rossitter
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Belt Sander!
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Amen to that. I had the unfortunate luck of actually slicing into my left thumb on the band saw a few months ago. What I learned was don't force a tool to do a job faster. Let the tool do it at it's own pace because sometimes there is a soft spot in the wood and the band saw does not ever loose thumb-wrestling matches.
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Just be prepared for this to be an expensive hobby. Tools are one part of it, then comes woods, finishes, parts, wire etc... I started out just wanting to make a chapman stick, and now I can't stop. If you are married, you need to let your spouse know that you will be spending a lot of time with your new mistress. Enjoy
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Well I can tell you this. It was easy to use. I guess it all really depends on how intricate you want the inlay to be. You would only use this for monochromatic stuff, but if you can carve it, this will fill it. Be sure to work in a WELL ventelated area.
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Well you have a fundimental problem with custom builders, being that each guitar is different that the next. I don't think that a wholw lot of us are in business here, so it's just hard to justify the expense of paying someone to tool up and route a custom body. Now what you can do it is start making your own body designs and necks that match and sell them. I really wish you the best of luck with your idea, and maybe one day I will want to do a run of 10 of a certain bass that I make....we can talk then
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Well I got the Inlace product in and gave it a shot. I think for what it is it looks fantastic. I will post pics soon. I know it does not compare to the craft of true inlay, but it provides a striking result. Thanks for all of the help
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Two things 1) Many of us would want very specific woods and laminations styles. Would we have to pre laminate and ship to you? 2) You should open a general CNC shop, and offer services to a wide variety of consumers. That way you can afford to do guitar work.
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Im Done W/ Neck-thru Strat Copy! Well Sort Of...
JohnRossitter replied to Rowdy's topic in In Progress and Finished Work
Wow, that looks great! Good job -
I'm quite fond of the off shape headstock. I like to get after them with the drum sander and grind grooves into them that feel nice.
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Or use it for target practice!
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Nope, never tried that. I can't imagine that it would a smart thing to do however. How would you sand them with them not working their way out of the slots? Would be a whole lot of work... I know that much.
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Well if you say it's warped then it must be. I just can't see where.
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Now Some Strange Spots In My Wood!
JohnRossitter replied to fyb's topic in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat
Assuming that it's a bench planer you are talking about I would say that what you are seeing is probably in the wood itself. I only say that because if it were the planer you would see the spots in uniform location. Sometimes wood has stuff hidden under it's layers. Like I said before, I think it looks good. If it really bothers you, just cut arund them and mail me the scraps -
Now Some Strange Spots In My Wood!
JohnRossitter replied to fyb's topic in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat
Is it a gouge or just a dark ring? I think it looks kind of cool...breaks up the monotony of the grain Kind of like the rings you get in canarey -
I don't know. I was thinking about trying to turn it on the lathe as a set of drum sticks for my drummer
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It's heavier than Purpleheart. It' heavier than Ironwood. Something on the order of 77Lbs per Cubic Foot
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Lucky!
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My brother is a trim carpenter, and works with a lot of exotics (like myself). He saves me his scrap stuff and I pick it up once every couple of months. He has some scrap 3/4" x 6" Ipe wood that he set aside for me. Have any of you worked with it before in the context of guitars? I think that it may be a bit toooooo dense. http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/ipe.htm
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I got one of those cordless ones last year. I turned it (to what I thought was) off and left the room for a minute to get a soda. When I came back the damn thing was smoking. It seems that the cordless dremmel wasn't engineered to the highest standards.
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Take your router and cleanup the gouge. Make it big enough to hold a block of matching wood (follow the grain path). Glue, Clamp and wait. Then just sand it smooth.
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Well I'm excited to try it out. I guess my only problem now is that I have pre-radiused the fingerboard I wanted to use.
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Yeah, that's kind of where I was going with my question. I only use linseed oil once my final sanding is done. I like the feel of wood [no laughing please]
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How did that hold up under playing?